PhD position in Foundations of Knowledge and Opinion Formation in Social Networks, Groningen (the Netherlands)

We are inviting applications for a PhD Position in *Foundations of Knowledge and Opinion Formation in Social Networks* at the University of Groningen.

The PhD candidate will join the Multi-Agent Systems Group at the Department of Artificial Intelligence and work primarily under the supervision of Dr Zoé Christoff.

The goal of this project is to provide foundational analytical results answering, for instance, some of the following questions: how do social networks constrain opinion flow? Which communication protocols and/or network structures perform better than others in terms of truth-tracking? Are there non-trivial network structures that necessarily increase/decrease specific herding effects? Are there ways to make a population of agents provably less vulnerable to disinformation campaigns?